Etymology

speakership

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Today it means: The position or tenure of the speaker of a legislative body. Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *skapjaną ← English speaker ← Middle English spekere, speker
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*spregʰ-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*spreg-?
  3. Proto-Germanic*sprekaną
  4. Proto-West Germanic*sprekan
  5. Old Englishsprecan
  6. Old Englishspecan
  7. Middle Englishspeken
  8. Middle Englishspekere, speker
  9. Englishspeaker
  10. Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
  11. English todayspeakership

From speaker + -ship.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.